Microsoft is doing its best to make Bing relevant. They’re taking search share, but unfortunately it is from their partner, Yahoo!

They do have one small secret weapon though, they own a couple percentage points in Facebook and they have a very nice working relationship. They’ve also managed to make friends with the Twitter folks.

Now, the guys from Redmond are parlaying that into some excellent new social search functionality – and it is different enough that it might even help them make some inroads into Google.

Many people in the affiliate marketing world look down their noses at Amazon.com as a potential affiliate partner. They complain that the commissions are too low, there are too many rules, the cookies are too short, etc.

Another group of aspiring affiliate marketers that I’ve come across don’t even seem to have a solid grip of the basics of affiliate marketing with Amazon.

I think Amazon is a great partner if you do it the right way, so I sat down and created this video!

If you have any tips or tricks about being a better Amazon Affiliate, leave them in the comment box below, I’d love to hear them!